Illustrations
Foreword
Peter D. Hershock
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong
1. The Buddhist Canon and the Liberal Arts Classroom
Andy Alexander Davis
2. Awakening in the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism: Reading a Gongan/Koan Comparatively
Ann Pirruccello
3. Seeking the Pure Land (in the Classroom)
Kendall Marchman
4. The Representation and Transformation of Nagas, Dragons, and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting
Jacqueline Chao
5. Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction
R. Keller Kimbrough
6. The Buddhist Gift: Merit-Making, Donations, and the Ambivalence of Reward
Jessica Falcone
7. The Puzzle of the Socially Engaged Buddhist Agent and a Thai Buddhist Philosophical Response
Geoff Ashton
8. Five Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox
9. Not Knowing Is Most Intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a Humanities Course
Jane Collins
Contributors
Index

Nicholas S. Brasovan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism: An Interpretive Engagement with Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), also published by SUNY Press. Micheline M. Soong is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hawai¿i Pacific University.